The SmartCommUnity project aims to support Alpine rural areas, using all the benefits of digitalization, embracing smart transitions and creating a functional transnational community within EUSALP AG5 Smart Alps. Interactive and user-friendly digital tools enhancing transnational matchmaking and leading-by example will empower new areas to follow more advanced areas, and territories will develop a community approach to create smarter, greener, more sustainable, resilient, and attractive rural areas.

Smart community definition
“Smart communities are communities of people, in mountain or rural areas, that are proud and aware of their identity, their territory, their craftsmanship, their products and their close-knit social fabric, and that want to become active players in determining their own future, owning and driving the changes that the future, and any digital transition, may entail. Smart communities are open to innovate, to learn and to inspire, and to work holistically towards smart and green rural and mountain areas, that are lively and lived, that aim to become carbon-neutral and that can be or become attractive to live and work for all age groups.”
SmartCommUnity Project Aims
- Experiment innovative solutions for the smart transition of the test areas and inspire additional areas in the partner and other Alpine regions to follow suit, via a strong regional approach of Lighthouse Test Areas working closely with selected Follower Test areas;
- Closely work with all Test Areas at EUSALP level, facilitating the uptake of the smart community concept in regional, national and European policies and fostering a sense of a structured Alpine community with common challenges and visions;
- Develop new digital tools to facilitate matchmaking, networking, and engagement activities in search of locally-tailored and led smart solutions, such as gamification and civic tech (WPIT);
- Change perceptions and create a smart vision for the Alps, and effectively communicating the opportunities and results in the Alps and beyond for more areas to join in.


Resources
- D3.1.1: Gamification and civic engagement tools and initiatives
- D3.2.1: Report on the expansion of the Smart Villages platform
- D2.1.1: Report and Guidelines on Community Based Data Approach
- D2.1.2: Report on Structuring the work of LTAs and FTAs
- Other: The guidelines for gamification to engage smart communities
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Project information
Programme:
Interreg Alpine Space
Project Acronym:
SmartCommUnity
Title:
Building on the concept of Smart Villages towards a transnational and EUSALP-integrated Smart Community in the Alps
Project Code:
ASP0100041
Programme Specific Objective:
SO 3.2 Reaping the benefits of digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities
Duration:
11/2022 – 10/2025 (36 months)
Total elegible costs:
2.960.288€
Lead Coordinator:
jure.trilar@fe.uni-lj.si
Communications:
giorgia.merletto@anciliguria.eu
Programme Project Website:
www.alpine-space.eu/project/smartcommunity/
